Nonduality and Native spirituality—how do they relate? How are they similar? At first blush, it may seem like they are very different. Non-duality is about attaining the non-dual state. This means attaining a state where you know through your own experience that everything’s connected—that there is a dynamic oneness between everything, that there’s not two. …
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Native teachings and nonduality
Native teachings and nonduality are similar because they are talking about the same state of human reality. The big difference is that native teachings say we’ve always been there. -Asking Who You Are- In Native societies it would have been very common as a child to constantly be asked who you are, to the point …
Nonduality Intersects with Native Wisdom
Welcome to my course on how Nonduality and enlightenment teachings intersect with Native Wisdom. On the next few pages you’ll find the series as Youtube videos with edited transcriptions. Please do the course in order as each story builds upon the one before to paint a full picture of how we are native to this world and that the awakened state is our natural state.
This entire course is available in book form on Amazon. Both in Kindle form, and paperback. It’s an easy read that goes through all the stories in order… each one building on the next.
Newsletter: Truth and Lies. What are they?
There is a miracle of being which is a place where there is no lies… because it’s a place that doesn’t need language. Real being can’t lie. The only thing that can be used to tell a lie is words. Language. The real truth of things lies under that in that place in our consciousness …
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To hold the truth firmly before you never be for or against
To hold the truth firmly before you, never before or against—this is an ancient saying. I’ve heard it attributed to Chinese Zen philosophers. If you look it up on Google, you’ll find it quoted in various different ways. This is my favorite way of saying it. For years and years, I had this posted up …
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Any spiritual teaching can be nondual
Any spiritual teaching can be non-dual if it makes us see the connection between things, because that’s the ultimate point: to be able to really see the connection between things. Even the idea about God—very often, the idea about God is that there’s me here and there’s God over there. But you can also take …
If you awaken?
Question. If you woke up this exact same moment, would you be all by yourself? Or would you find yourself surrounded by Awakening?
Nonduality makes people go into their heads
Non-duality really makes people go into their heads, which is weird because the purpose of it, obviously, is to do the exact opposite. So it’s interesting to think… why is that? Maybe it’s the kind of person that’s drawn to non-duality. Maybe it’s the sources of Non-duality teachings which—let’s be honest—are obscure sounding, and weird …
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